Expanding Your Job Search to the Global Market

With the job market how it is today you want to give yourself as many advantages as possible when you are looking for employment. For years people have been talking about the global markets and how other countries and regions are catching up to the United States. Analysts and news programs talk about what we need to do to keep jobs in the United States so people can find work. My question is why don't you go where the jobs are? If you are having a hard time finding a job in the United States expand your job search to the rest of the world. Instead of beating your head up against a wall trying to find that one job in your home town try looking for a job everywhere. You will have a much easier time finding a job if are willing to move to a new location whether it is in another state or in another country.

I have had people email me resumes asking if they could do anything different to attract employers. After going through most of them and believing they were perfectly good resumes I asked them where they were looking for jobs at. Most of them replied with the name of one city. When I tell them to broaden their search to other locations they all have some reason to only look for a job in their current location. One person told me that they could not move because they already owned a house. They replied that they needed to find a job soon because they were already behind on there mortgage payments. My answer that was if you stay there and cant find a job you lose your house so why don't you try for a job overseas and see if you can get one were the company provides housing for you. After some coxing on my part they finally agreed to give it a try. They wrote me back and said that they were offered a position that more than doubled there salary and they were able to find an agency that would handle renting out their house while they were gone. My point is if you can't find a job where you are at what harm does it do to look for jobs in various locations around the world? If you don't find a job overseas or you were offered a job that you do not want to take you lost nothing by looking for one. If there is a chance you can better your current situation why not give it a try?

There are plenty of companies around the world looking for skilled workers and they are willing to pay for it. Once you have overseas experience you will find it easier and easier to get jobs around the world. Companies that need people and are willing hire someone from outside of there country want someone they know will finish there commitment to the company. When someone has overseas experience they know they will more than likely be able to handle working in a new country and be willing to finish their contract. You will find a lot more U.S. companies out there looking for U.S. workers to fill there overseas positions than you may think. Many U.S. companies who have positions overseas fill them with United States Citizens depending on what type of job it is. You will find that these overseas positions many times include housing and transportation. Many teaching jobs around the world come with housing included in the compensation package. You will find the same rings true with a lot of the technical jobs you find around the world as well.

By expanding your job search to as many locations as possible you will get more offers and that increases your chances of finding a higher paying job. The more offer letters you get the more leverage you have when negotiating for a salary. If you have three offer letter that are offering $20 an hour you can try to get more from two of them. If they cave and give you more you can see if you can get more from the other job offer before you make your final decision. If a place includes housing and transportation you will be saving a lot by not having to pay for rent or spend money on a new car. One thing you want to look at before taking a job is the cost of living and tax laws of the place you are planning to go to. After you qualify for the foreign earned income exclusion you will find that you are getting a huge break on taxes by working overseas. If the country you would be working in does not require you to pay taxes to them you could find yourself owing no taxes or very little at the end of the year. The foreign earned tax credit given by the IRS to those who qualify for it can deduct over $87,000 from there overseas income as long as they meet the IRS requirements.

Taking your first overseas job is a big step and is something you really need to research before you decide to go that route. But the chances of getting a higher wage along with benefits like tax deductions and provided housing and transportation it makes a lot of sense. Working overseas not only makes since financially but it also gives you the chance to see the world and get paid for it. Many people from other countries already do this kind of work. Europeans, Asians, South Americans, Australians, and New Zealanders have been doing this for years. The United States work force has been slow to catch on to this kind of work even though there are those from the U.S. that do work overseas they are a very small percentage of the Expat population as a whole but their numbers are increasing fast. You will find that many U.S. citizens who start an overseas career become permanent expats because they can enjoy a higher standard of living for various reasons. They find countries that have a lower cost of living than the United States so there money goes a lot further and they can start a business for much less. Those U.S. citizens who do go back to the United States find themselves more financially stable than when they left. Either way many United States Citizens are finding out that life abroad suits them just fine no mater how long their time abroad may be.